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GSA Announces GobiernoUSA.gov

Washington, DC- In another move to fulfill President Bush’s pledge to make the government more responsive, Lurita Doan, Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), announced today that the U.S. government’s official Spanish-language web portal, Espanol.gov, has been renamed GobiernoUSA.gov. GobiernoUSA.gov is the Spanish-language counterpart to USA.gov, the official web portal of the U.S. government.

“Though GobiernoUSA.gov was launched and managed by some amazing employees of the GSA, this website belongs to the people, and it exists for only one reason: to help citizens understand the issues of the day, and to help us to hold our government accountable,” Doan said.

Over the past several years, feedback from users indicated that the portal name should be made easier to understand and remember, in addition to more clearly indicating its official nature. Hispanic users in the U.S. especially requested a name that was more relevant to their culture and the Spanish language. Earlier this year, GSA conducted an online survey with U.S. Hispanics and the result was an undeniable preference for the name GobiernoUSA.gov as the official portal of the U.S. Government in Spanish.

With almost 1.6 million visits in 2006, GobiernoUSA.gov continues GSA’s commitment to providing the public with trustworthy, convenient and user-friendly government resources and services in Spanish. On GobiernoUSA.gov, the public can quickly find information on immigration, housing, federal programs and countless other topics from federal, state, and local government sources. The information is also sorted by audience, making it easy for recent immigrants, business people, and visitors to the U.S. alike to find the answers they need.

To enhance the services it offers Spanish-speakers, GobiernoUSA.gov has recently improved and created features that give users faster, easier access to more resources and services. GobiernoUSA.gov offers visitors the ability to view search results clustered by topic and popularity with users; to receive e-mail updates when content on the website has changed; and to access information on the same topic in English or Spanish by simply clicking a toggle button. All these features are designed to make it even easier for users to find their way around the site to get the U.S. government information and services they want.

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Founded in 1949, GSA serves as a centralized procurement and property management agency for the federal government. GSA manages more than one-fourth of the government’s total procurement dollars and influences the management of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,300 government-owned or leased buildings and 170,000 vehicles. GSA helps preserve our past and define our future, acting as a steward of more than 420 historic properties, and as manager of USA.gov, the official portal to federal government information and services. GSA’s mission to provide superior workplaces, expert technology solutions, acquisition services, purchasing and e-travel solutions and management policies, at best value, allows federal agencies to focus on their core missions.